Coal-carrier for retorts.



G. W. TRAER.

'COAL CARRIER FOR RETORTS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR` 1o. |911.

Patented May 28,1918.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application mea maren 1o, 1917. serial no. waan.

To all whom t may concern: c .1 3e it known that I, GLENN W. TnAnR, a citlzen ofthe United States, Vand a resident of Chicago, in the county of 'Cook and State of Illinois, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Coal-Carriers for Retorts, of which the following is a descrlptlon, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of my specification.

My invention .relates more particularly to a movable coal container or. carrier adapt for use in a retort or oven for distilling the volatile hydrocarbons from coal, more especially bituminous coal, at temperatures greatly less than are employed in the ordinary gas-house and by-product making non-volatile coke; my improved ear rier or container being especially desi ed to convey coal through a retort or oven aving eoking and cooling chambers, thus enabling a substantially continuous coking method to be employed;

The invention contemplates means where.- by thecoal will be maintained in the retort in columnar units of greater vertical vthan transversev dimensions, in order that the heat will be more or less uniformly transmitted thro h the body of Athe coal, which is referaby arrange in predetermined an separated quantities, at the various points in the coking oven or chamber while the coal travels from the inlet or charging end toward the outlet or discharging end .of the retort.; the invention contemplatin means of 1 i. heat conductivity, for ho ding the p -veter-mined quantities of coking oven or chamber and thereby overcoming the diiiiculties heretofore encountered through the natural tendency of the coal, while in a plastic state, tol expand against the sides o the oven or chamber in such manner as to im e and prevent its easy movement throu theoven or coking chamber; the means being of such construction that the coked coal may be readily dis'- charged there m lupon the withdrawal of the respective containers from' the retort.

The advantages of the invention will be more fully comprehended 'from the followovens for' or boss 13 formed on freely travel through the ing detailed description of the accompanying drawing, wherein Figure 1 illustrates my improved carrier in side elevation. y

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of same. y

Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view.

My invention, as previously stated, is especially intended for carryingi or conveying coal and the resultant co e, in separated columnar quantities through a suitable retort provided with coking and cooling chambers; and in the particular exemplification, it comprises a metallic receptacle having four sides 5,' 6, 7 and 8; with the two sides, 5 and 6, of greater lateral dimensions than the sides 7 and 8, so as to provide a carrier of greater vertical and longitudinal dimensions than the transverse dimensions thereof; in other words, to provide a carrier of considerable height,l but of comparative narrow dimensions.

The container or carrier is 4composed of metal of great heat conductivity, open at its top, see Figs. 2 and 3, and provided with a removable ottom 9, hinged at the one end, as shown at 10, to the lower end of a link 11 which is pivotally secured at 12 to a lug the end wall 8 of the container.

The bottom 9 is preferably provided with upwardly presented ange portions 14 eX- tending about the entire bottom so as to overlap the lower portions of theside walls of the container. The free end of the bottom is provided with a pawl 15 pivoted to the bottom at 16. and gage with a lug 17 secured at the forward end of the container, thus roviding a suitable latch for holding the hottom in closed position.

The container is v of' transversely disposed metallic partitions 18, formed and secured in any' suitable manner to the side walls 5 and 6 whereby the container. is divided into a plurality of vertically disposed compartments, so that the coal will" be maintained in a plurality of comparatively thin vertical columns, which will not only enable the coke to be more readily released from the container, but will also induce a more rapid coking or a- Patented ay 28, tte.

disposed upwardly to enprovided with a number the container as p I partitions .are composed. With tins conv tillation of tion of the coal, by reason of the heat conductivity of the metal of which the walls of well as the intermediate struction, the coal is divided into a number of narrow columns disposed transversely and entirely across the carriers.; the comparatively thin columns of coal being surrounded on all sides by heat-conducting metallic walls which not only enhance the dis'-- the coal, buty cause a more thorough colringu of the entire mass or individual columns, without subjecting the outer 'layers of coal, namely the trunmoned in suitable brackets 220 secured" on the end walls rollers being 4so slightly beyond the plane of the side walls of thev container and in advance thereof so as to engage with the side walls of the oven and thereby prevent the possibility of of the container; the

the corners or the metallic container wedg-A ing against the side walls of the oven. For convenience in handling, both end walls of the container are also shown provided with suitable handles orr 'rapplingI portions 21.

The bottom 9 el the container is' also shown preferably provided with rollers 22 at opposite ends thereof; the rollers 22 at the forward ends of journaled on the pivot 16 of pawl l5, while the rollers 22 at the rear ends are shown journaled on the pivots l0 for thebottom 9, llhese rollers permit the container to be moved readily from place to place and through the chambers of 'the retort or oveno In providing the carriers herein shown and described, a positive method of handlinal the coal, while in a plastic state in the dist' lation portion or colnng chamber of an oven, is provided, and. plugging of the oven will be prevented; at the same time a continuous retort orl coking method is obtained through the use oi' a suitable number of carriers which may be successively inserted intothe ovens o l have shown and described what'l believe to be the best embodiment of my invention, but certain details of construction may be modied without, however, departing from the spirit of the invention.

L A coal' carrier of the class described, comprising an elongate f metallic container of greater vertical dimensions than trans v sides of the diierient columns, to such degree of heat as wouldV tainer than the transverse dimension thereof, va

mounted as to extend `terial disposed from top to the container may be nooners -verse dimensions so` as to provide a com'-l 'in cross-section and of 'greater longitudinal and vertical dimensions than the transverse f limensionV thereof, said container being provided with an open top, a plurality of metallic partitions extending from top to bottom and disposed from side to side whereby the carrier is divided into a number of narrow vertically disposed chambers, a metallic bottom pivotally secured so as to swing downwardly, and means whereby the free end o the bottom is removably held in closed position. l

3. A coal carrier of the class described, comprising a rectangular container composed of heat'-conducting;1 material, said conbc'ing of greater vertical dimension series of partitions of heat-conducting mabottom and extending from side to 1s divided into a series of vertically'disposed narrow chambers, the sidewalls whereof are formed by the side walls of the container, a bottom r for said cured at one end so as to swing from beneath thecontainer, and a pivoted vlatch member whereby the free end of the bottom is held in closed position,

LA coal carrier of the class described, comprising a metallic rectangular container side in the container` and secured thereto wherebyy the container) container pivotally se of greater vertical dimension than the transf verse dimension thereof, .a metallic bottom pivotally secured at one. end tothe wall of the container so as to swing from beneath the container, means whereby the free end of the bottom is latched in closed position, and anti-friction members mounted at opposite ends of the container so yas to extend forward of the respectiveend walls of the conm tainer.

5. .d coal carrier of the class described,

comprising a metallic container, rectangular A in cross-section and of greater vertical dimensionthan the `transverse dimension thereof, a plurality .of metallic ,partitions disposed from top to bottomv and from side to side of the container whereby the container is divided into a series oil tically disposed compartments whose sides are formed by' the side walls of the container, a metallic bottom pivotally secured at. one end of the container and provided with anti-friction bearings. at both ends thereof, a pivotally secured latch member whereby the free end of the bottom is held in closed position,

narrow; verand anti-friction means said end walls.

rotatably mounted on the end Walls ofthe .the container whereby the coal in the con- 10 container so as to be disposed in advance of tainer is divided into narrow vertically disposed columns, and a removable metallic 6. A coal carrier of the class described,l bottom.

' comprising a rectangular metallic container of greater vertical dimension than the trans# verse dimension thereof and open at its top, aplurality of metallic partitions extending from top to bottom and from side to side of GLENN W. TRER.

Witnesses:

GEORGE HEImrAN, F. A. Fromm.. 

